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Toy Story 3 has topped the weekend box office for the second week in row, beating out the debuts of Adam Sandler‘s Grown Ups and Tom Cruise‘s much-hyped action thriller Knight and Day.

Toy Story 3 (Pixar)

We feel kind of bad for the studios that paid mega millions to land Hollywood heavyweights like Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler for their blockbuster hopefuls, only to see them smashed aside by a bunch of animated toys.

Then again, we’re kind of amused to imagine Tom Cruise squirming after the worst box office debut for one of his action movies in 20 years. Let’s face it Mr. Cruise, you’re just not Top Gun at the box office anymore. All those weird couch-jumping antics and freakish Scientology spewing episodes aren’t making things any easier.

Toy Story 3 laughed its way into first place at the weekend box office again with $59 in ticket sales by Sunday, raking in $226.6 domestically so far. The Adam Sandler starring comedy Grown Ups placed at second with a decent take of $41 million. Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, crawled into a rather dismal third place with only $27.8 million since the film’s early Wednesday premiere.

Rounding out the top five for the weekend box office were The Karate Kid at $20.5 million so far and The A-Team with $6 million.

As for next week’s box office roundup, you can pretty much bet even Toy Story 3 is not going to stand a chance against the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse for the July 4 weekend.

Tom’s movie made 27 million. I think that’s pretty good. And becuase you were so nasty with your comnments about him, I won’t be clicking on any of ur adds. I guess you shouldn’t tick off his fans. Also, you have a blog with no comments, but he has a movie with 27 mil, I really think you should stop dissing him.

anyone recall the last cruise-diaz team-up, vanilla sky???
long before the couch, the â€˜glibâ€™, the brooke shields, the scientology tape leak, cruise was losing his box office appeal; as his films in general were costing more, but bringing in less at the box office. cruise has had an amazing career. he was a top ten box office draw for 20 years! out of those 20 years he was number one 7 times which is more than any other star ever. for some reason the media (again in general) has decided that now is the time for his comeback and that This is the film to propel that comeback, but the public is in rejection of that notion. the media seems bent on shoving cruise down everyoneâ€™s throat and the public (in general) is merely regurgitating hollywoodâ€™s hard sell. cruise will continue to be a star. he will continue to have a career, but the truth is he just isnâ€™t the star he once was. 20 years with 7 at number one that is an incredible run. just how big is the hole in cruiseâ€™s ego that he must continue to win or at least attempt to win the attention of the public? how much reaffirmation and ego stroking does he need? when will hollywood realize that their plastic, manufactured star/golden boy has run his course?